Zandar's Thought Of The Day

Ross Douthat: Still 0-for-whatever in the persuasive argument category.

A system designed to ensure the advancement of minorities will tend toward corruption if it persists for generations, even after the minorities have become a majority. If affirmative action exists in the America of 2028, it will be as a spoils system for the already-successful, a patronage machine for politicians — and a source of permanent grievance among America’s shrinking white population.

Look, I hope America doesn't need affirmative action in 2028 either, but somehow looking at the state of the Republican Party's non-White numbers, I just don't see anyone setting up a patronage system to assure their near-majority status may cross into the double digits in 20 years.

God help us should that happen.

[UPDATE 12:03 PM] What Doug J said, and has said much better than I have.